SHARPIN
Sharpin
Also known as: DKFZP434N1923, SHRPN_HUMAN, SIPL1
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q9H0F6
- Gene
- SHARPIN
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000179526
- Chromosome
- 8
- Canonical length
- 387 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Golgi apparatus,Plasma membrane,Cytosol
- Quaternary structure
- Homodimer
OverviewNCBI Gene
Enables polyubiquitin modification-dependent protein binding activity. Involved in defense response to bacterium; protein linear polyubiquitination; and regulation of signal transduction. Located in cytosol. Part of LUBAC complex. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
387 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q9H0F6|SHARPIN
1 MAPPAGGAAA AASDLGSAAV LLAVHAAVRP LGAGPDAEAQ LRRLQLSADP ERPGRFRLEL
61 LGAGPGAVNL EWPLESVSYT IRGPTQHELQ PPPGGPGTLS LHFLNPQEAQ RWAVLVRGAT
121 VEGQNGSKSN SPPALGPEAC PVSLPSPPEA STLKGPPPEA DLPRSPGNLT EREELAGSLA
181 RAIAGGDEKG AAQVAAVLAQ HRVALSVQLQ EACFPPGPIR LQVTLEDAAS AASAASSAHV
241 ALQVHPHCTV AALQEQVFSE LGFPPAVQRW VIGRCLCVPE RSLASYGVRQ DGDPAFLYLL
301 SAPREAPATG PSPQHPQKMD GELGRLFPPS LGLPPGPQPA ASSLPSPLQP SWSCPSCTFI
361 NAPDRPGCEM CSTQRPCTWD PLAAASTLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against SHARPIN can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.
- Antibody reachability
- Intracellular
- Secreted
- No
- Transmembrane segments
- 0
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.45
- Highest tissue expression
- 105 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- testis: 105 nTPM
- skeletal muscle: 55 nTPM
- heart muscle: 52 nTPM
- adrenal gland: 48 nTPM
- choroid plexus: 48 nTPM
- colon: 45 nTPM
Single-cell type
- late spermatids: 2,268 nCPM
- late primary spermatocytes: 489 nCPM
- early spermatids: 388 nCPM
- cardiomyocytes: 135 nCPM
- esophageal apical cells: 123 nCPM
- differentiating spermatogonia: 107 nCPM
Immune cell
- eosinophil: 54 nTPM
- plasmacytoid DC: 43 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 41 nTPM
- memory CD8 T-cell: 38 nTPM
- non-classical monocyte: 35 nTPM
- T-reg: 34 nTPM
Brain region
- medulla oblongata: 42 nTPM
- pons: 38 nTPM
- midbrain: 37 nTPM
- thalamus: 37 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 37 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 36 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about SHARPIN.
Disease | AllUniProt
Conditions SHARPIN is implicated in, by any mechanism.
- Autoinflammation with episodic fever and immune dysregulation (AIFID) MIM:620795
Disease | GeneticClinVar
3 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 104 ClinVar records.
Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.
- Autoinflammation with episodic fever and immune dysregulation
- Sharpin-related autoinflammatory syndrome
Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap
Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.
- gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
- 0.98
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- -0.04
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.07
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 16% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
- apoptotic nuclear changes
- canonical NF-kappaB signal transduction
- defense response to bacterium
- keratinization
- mitochondrion organization
- negative regulation of canonical NF-kappaB signal transduction
- negative regulation of inflammatory response
- positive regulation of canonical NF-kappaB signal transduction
- proteasome-mediated ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process
- protein linear polyubiquitination
- regulation of CD40 signaling pathway
- regulation of tumor necrosis factor-mediated signaling pathway
Molecular functions
- polyubiquitin modification-dependent protein binding
- protein-macromolecule adaptor activity
- ubiquitin binding
- ubiquitin-protein transferase activity
- zinc ion binding
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of SHARPIN in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads SHARPIN as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SHARPIN could matter depends on whether native SHARPIN is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
SHARPIN is annotated as predominantly intracellular. Intracellular proteins are common autoantibody markers, becoming visible to the immune system after cell injury or altered processing, but are usually markers of disease rather than direct drivers.
Annotation status
The present source text does not explicitly label SHARPIN as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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